oxford
So many ducks to chase!
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oxford
Spaceships.
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ben
Hotel room selfie.
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Brief Encounter
St Pancras station
Chichester
My first real drive in England, heading down to the south coast yesterday.
Software development
The Internet Explorer 8 web developer's dilemma
This post originally appeared on werd.io. Google Analytics has announced it will end IE8 support by the end of the year, following Google Apps, which ended support for the browser last November. Legacy browser support remains one of the hardest problems in web development. For years, Internet Explorer 6
Software development
What's the best way to give developers space?
Like all my new posts and articles, this piece originally appeared on werd.io. Software developers are not technicians. Whereas technicians are employed to do practical work involving technical equipment, the development process is more akin to writing. Paul Graham was absolutely right when he pointed out that: [...] Of all
idno
The IndieWeb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem
I wrote a post as a submission for the W3C's upcoming Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business. great post to readargue I believe that these compelling business models exist, and that they are most easily discoverable in the enterprise. However, belief is not demonstration: we must
General
Introducing Herebe
I wrote a short novel about Silicon Valley, startups, and, well, dragons. It's a little different to the kind of thing I normally share here, but bear with me. From a review on Amazon UK: This book is a bit hard to categorise. It has elements of fairy
idno
What is idno?
I wrote a post over at werd.io about idno, the open source publishing tool I've been building: What decisions would I make if I was building Elgg today, in 2013? What would I do the same way, and what would I do differently? It's still
idno
Decentralized comments and the IndieWeb
I just stumbled on this old thread by Marc Canter and Stephen Downes (emphasis mine): The primary use of OpenID should not simply be identification, but also, to tell remote sites where to direct our actions. So – in a sense – I carry all my own home website tools with me
Data control
Owning your data is cool - but having your own awesome site is cooler
This post was originally published over on werd.io, my idno-powered site, where I'm hosting all of my new posts and social media updates. There's been a lot of news stories lately about how technology companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! may or may